Whether it’s through restrictive laws that prohibit them from working, or through language and cultural barriers that make it extremely difficult to earn an income, refugees have to try to survive another disaster—a life lived in limbo. Here's how supporting refugees to build careers benefits everyone.

Since 2014, economic upheaval and political turmoil in Venezuela have caused over 3 million people to flee the country, and this number is likely to rise as the crisis intensifies.

Read some of our most popular articles of 2020 to revisit the biggest stories related to COVID-19, refugees and humanitarian crises this year.

Ethiopia features on the IRC's annual Emergency Watchlist for the third year in a row but rises into the top five for the first time due to escalating conflict in Tigray. Here's what you need to know.

Forced to marry and give up her education and dreams, a Syrian refugee turns frustration into poetry.

After fleeing ISIS in Iraq, a young woman starts over in a refugee camp in Syria—with her infant son. They are among the almost 17,000 people, mostly Iraqis, living in Al Hol camp.

Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted.

The IRC is training Iraqis who were forced from their homes by ISIS as community representatives who can advocate for the needs of their neighbors in the camps where they've been displaced.

Ethnic conflict is raging in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. In 2012 many minority Muslims were attacked and their villages destroyed, forcing them to shelter in camps. Residents of one of these camps describe the discrimination and danger they still face.